Sublime

What goes on here is not part of the real world.” “How so?” “Mmmmmmmmmh. The language is different.” Some of it was, and a phrase book, such as the Penguin Dictionary of Computers, could be useful. ECO—each letter pronounced—meant “engineering change order.” Hence this remark: “A friend of mine told his girlfriend they had to ECO their relationship

Unfortunately, as Parnas put it, “[Programmers] have been fed so many ‘silver bullets’ that they don’t believe anything anymore.”12

Pit

The whole development team didn’t understand the reasons behind the technical practices. They ended up cutting corners here or gaming the system there, creating little sub-teams—or even “teams of one”—operating with a different set of standards and an incomplete view of the whole system. This made integrating code a nightmare-like experience that n

Conway’s Law is a celebrated truism in software development: technical systems tend to resemble the communication structures of the organizations that create them.